Life is demanding
Without understanding
--Ace of Base
"We need to do this..."
In the context of politics, 'we' often means 'you.' The 'we' is often a euphemism for principals contracting with strong armed government agents. The prescription involves how those agents should apply aggressive force to limit the freedom of others.
What drives so many people to prescribe the use of aggressive force on others? Is it a vision so grand that some people are willing to use force to achieve it?
Or is it simply the desire to control others--the timeless drive for conquest?
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The difference between political power and any other kind of social power, between a government and any private organization, is the fact that a government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury—the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.
~Ayn Rand
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